10/17/2019 0 Comments What's a Fractal?A “fractal” is a specific type of repeating pattern where the parts are the same shape as the whole. If you look at the entire thing, or a small section, or a small section of a small section, you’ll see the same shapes repeated smaller and smaller.
Even if a fractal is a little tricky to define clearly, we all know them when we see them. They’re super common in nature. The spiral of a nautilus shell is a fractal pattern, or a snowflake, or a head of Romanesco broccoli. Follow a tree branch from the trunk out to the leaves or a river from its mouth to its sources and you’ll find fractal patterns there as well. Or, to quote Wikipedia, a fractal is “a subset of a Euclidean space for which the Hausdorff dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.” That should clear up any remaining confusion, right?
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